I think it has become more than apparent that our federation with Hexbear has degraded the quality of browsing on this instance. I'm generally for open federation, but the amount of brigading and general toxicity is not conducive to the friendly communications that make Lemmy great.
Alright, here's a fun experiment we should try: you know what America did to North Korea? Let's allow, say, China, do the same thing to America. That includes:
Destroy almost literally every single building in the country, including factories, hospitals, and schools.
Kill 15-20% of the entire American population.
Destroying all the irrigation dams and other structures so that farming is made incredibly difficult.
Bombard the country with so many bombs that the people are forced to live underground and only farm at night.
I think this will be a fair experiment to see if American capitalism can compare with socialism when the rubber meets the road.